Monthly Archive for October, 2011

: October, 2011

Here’s everything I know about tractors. They’re found on farms. They’re slow. Sometimes they tip over. (Wait, were we talking about cows?) Something else cows and tractors have in common: They’re not …

Courtney Stodden, Washington state’s best-known child bride, took to “Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers” Monday to explain why she recently got kicked out of a pumpkin patch. According to 17-year-old Stodden and her middle-aged husband Doug Hutchison, it all comes down to jealous women.

Stodden recently visited a Santa Clarita pumpkin patch with Hutchison and started acting amorous — a bit too amorous for a farm that caters to families. Stodden was wearing shorts and a plaid shirt tied up to reveal her belly, and she said Monday that jealous women complained to the owner.

In an interview with Italian magazine Oggi, Raffaele Sollecito says he wants to see Amanda Knox very soon.

Sollecito’s public relations team and attorneys have been shopping around an interview with Knox’s co-defendant and former boyfriend, according to the Daily Beast. The Italian magazine landed the interview but barely promoted the feature — another sign that Sollecito might not have been wrong to call himself “Mr. Nobody” in his final appeal.

Sollecito said he still wears a jacket he lent to Knox because it reminds him of her, and that they talk every day.

Seattle was lampooned on The Daily Show Tuesday night for a $20 million jobs program that created just 14 jobs.

Gosh, when you put it that way, it does seem a little laughable.

The $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization jobs fell short of Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn’s goal — way short. Only 14 jobs were created in the space of a year — most of which were administrative. And only three houses had been weatherized.

Former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan threw a well-known conspiracy theorist out of a book signing in Seattle last week for questioning whether Kurt Cobain seemed depressed before his 1994 suicide.

McKagan shared a Seattle-bound flight with Cobain just days before the suicide, and was one of the last people to speak with the Nirvana frontman. Cobain had just escaped a Southern California rehab center, and he and McKagan ended up sitting next to each other in first class.

McKagan recently told VH1: “We talked. We were both sort of in the same boat. A couple guys recognizing where each other was at. It’s no fun being that completely and utterly addicted.”

At a book signing promoting his new book last week, McKagan got a question from an audience known for promoting the theory that Cobain was murdered.

A study released Tuesday by Kimberly-Clark Professional pinpointed several germ-contaminated surfaces you probably come in contact with during your average morning routine. Sure, you already knew not to lick a gas pump handle. (I hope.) But you might not realize just how filthy some of these surfaces are.

The study utilized swab tests to determine which surfaces were most contaminated. Those with an Adenosine Triphosphate reading higher than 300 were considered to have a high risk for illness transmission.

Seattle really missed out Monday night when a massive solar storm caused the Northern Lights to dance over the sky as far south as Alabama. The auroras are the result of a large mass of solar plasma ejected from the sun several days ago.

Wondering what we might have seen if not for the clouds? Here’s the view from Michigan.